In this video Dr. Seligman explores Positive Psychology.
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Explores how leaders can inspire cooperation, trust and change. Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question: "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers.
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Donald M Berwick is the former President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which he co-founded and led for 18 years. At our final leadership lecture in the 2013 series, Don shared his experience of the health care system in the United States, relating it to the changes currently seen in the English NHS.
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One of the things that gets in the way of many people leading is a popular misconception that effective leaders must possess some special leadership DNA. This view has come about because the leaders that easily spring to mind are those that have brought about some type of heroic change.
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From the moment you wake up, you’re bombarded with distractions. Emails clog your inbox, requests pile up, and notifications flicker in the background. Within moments your attention is scattered. Given the realities of today’s 24/7 world, how do great leaders slow down and focus in order to make thoughtful decisions?
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In this video Dr Tobias talks about her work on mindfulness and how it can be applied in leadership development.
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I was recently presenting to a group of nurse leaders and asked the question about whether they had ever lost control of their emotions in front of their staff. Many in attendance had but one leader’s response really surprised me. She saw nothing wrong with displaying her anger because “this is who I am and people have to get used to it.”
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Daniel Goleman (the ‘father’ of emotional intelligence) discovered that although the qualities commonly associated with leadership, like intelligence, decisiveness, determination, and vision, are necessary for success, they aren't enough. Highly effective leaders also have a solid degree of emotional intelligence.
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Don Berwick, Founder and former President, IHI, about the role of clinicians in leadership speaks with Richard Bohmer, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and International Fellow at The King's Fund.
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This video is a short interview with Professor Michael West about developing cultures of high quality care in Health Services.
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Engagement is the measure of the Team's Emotional Commitment to their leader and it's critically important for the bottom line.
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Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, explains that to continually improve health and social care, we must design collective leadership.
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There are plenty of issues to keep health leaders awake at night: financial concerns, the winter crisis, the junior doctors’ strikes and experiences of poor-quality care are all in the news.
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Ask 100 people if they have good common sense, and more than 95% will tell you they do. Ask them if they are good coaches, and almost as many will say yes. Executives we talk to assume that if they’re good managers, then being a good coach is like your shadow on a sunny day. It just naturally follows.
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When I was about 14 years old, I joined my school’s Army Cadet Corps. It was attractive because I’d heard they did cool things out in the bush. I was having a bit of a hard time at boarding school, and I thought it would a great respite. It wasn’t what I expected.
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Highly effective leaders have a transforming effect on their constituents: they have the gift of being able to convince others that they have the ability to achieve levels of performance beyond those they thought possible. They are able to paint an optimistic and attainable view of the future for their followers
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